I have a file called get_columns.sh that I would like to replace $2 with $3. I have the following sed command written that works
sed s/'$3'/'$2'/g get_columns.sh > output.txt
However, when I try the command below, the file is empty.
sed s/'$3'/'$2'/g get_columns.sh > get_columns.sh
... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Working on a script in the Vi editor that requires the fifth column of a particular line changed.
e.g.
Name:Address:email:A
where "A" needs to be changed to what the variable $access holds ($access currently has the words admin access in it)
when I use this command :
`sed... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a shell script containing a command string in the following format:
command1 | command2 | cut -c9-16
The output from this is a record number (using characters 9-16 of the original output string) e.g. ORD-1234
I wish to save this value to a variable for use in later commands... (4 Replies)
HI!
I have a file that looks like this:
>ANKRD30_2kb
AAGTAACCAATGCAGGAAACCGAGAGGAGAGGTTTGGAAGGTGGTTTAGTGAGGTAATCCATCTTTTCT
AGTGATAAACTGGCACCCAGTCAATTTATTCATCAGAAGGGAATACATCAGCCTGGCGTGGTGGCTCGC
CCCCGACCCTGTCAGCGTCACCAGCAGCGCGGATCCATGGGCCAGAAGCCTCTAGGGCGCCTAAGTCAG
Number of residues in the... (9 Replies)
When I run this:
PDHDURL=`/usr/bin/curl --silent http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php | /usr/bin/grep -o http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/.*.gif | head -1`
echo -e "$PHDURL"
It is totally blank. However, when I just run it from the terminal:
/usr/bin/curl --silent... (2 Replies)
My script ssh's to another server and gathers information then process them. The problem is that the output of a command has an unwanted "blank lines".
...
ssh user1@${server1} /usr/bin/ls -l /tmp/file1 | awk '{print $5}' > ${DATAFILE}
...
$ cat ${DATAFILE}
123456789 (There's a blank... (7 Replies)
I am ssh to many servers to get some information... however sometimes the server is unreacheable and i am getting an error. I want to save that output to a file but I am not able to do so...
I want to be able to save output of bash into a file.. so when I run this command on a script
ssh... (5 Replies)
Hi all........
Plss do help me.......in a big trouble... :wall::wall::wall:
I have 3 directories named as :1. /home/shuchi/source
2./home/shuchi/destination
3./home/shuchi/filter
now the problem is /home/shuchi/source has say 2 files with extension .txt as given below :
A.txt
Code:
... (0 Replies)
Hi all........
Plss do help me.......in a big trouble... :wall::wall::wall:
I have 3 directories named as :1. /home/shuchi/source
2./home/shuchi/destination
3./home/shuchi/filter
now the problem is /home/shuchi/source has say 2 files with extension .txt as given below :
A.txt
msisdn ... (5 Replies)
Hi,
i need help with a file creation of an output program. I've got a program that with #find creates an output for each files in a directory.
If i give this command :
-o spec$(date -u +%Y%m%dt%H%M)
it creates just one file, overwriting all the others since it is the creation date .... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)